Geocaching Trip - December 31, 2011

I got to get away from the house to geocache early Saturday morning. It has been a while that i could sting two days together. I traveled to Rome again and ventured up around the Rocky Mountain Public Fishing Adrea on Big Texas Valley Road. I found seven caches and visited the cemetery at Sand Springs Baptist Church on Sand Springs Road.

Geocaching Trip - December 29, 2011

Today was a good day for caching. I found eleven caches in Bartow and Floyd County. One of these was my 900th find.  Near the end of the day I visited  Antioch Old Cemetery. This cemetery is located off of Big Texas Valley Road Floyd County about a quarter of a mile from Antioch Church within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain Public Fishing Area .

Yondering: A Week In December

Monday, December 19, 2011

Daddy has three doctor appointments this week. I left Calhoun for Double Springs around three in the afternoon. In Leesburg, Alabama I took my new favorite road… Highway 68… north up onto Lookout Mountain. In Sand Rock I took Valley Road. Valley Road is a road cuts through farm land and connects to the Lookout Mountain Parkway near an old house that I will be featured on my Flicka account. With the sun quickly vanishing on this overcast day I had enough time for two stops. The first was at Antioch Church of Christ...a modern cemetery. The second stop was a Black Creek Baptist church cemetery…. there were several pioneers and CSA soldiers buried in the is cemetery.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Started the morning taking Daddy to Jasper for a back procedure. After lunch he wanted to take Christmas flower to mamma's grave in the Blaylock Cemetery before it started raining.

After performing this task we started back home. East of Hamilton, Alabama I took Marion County Road 49 to a cemetery at Sullins church. While visiting the cemetery we were visited by two very friendly and loud locals. One walked past me talking to him. He walked past the truck and gave Daddy a long look. He then walked down into the roadside ditch and disappeared. He walked out of the ditch and into the road. Another fellow then came down to the cemetery. From a distance he was joyously wishing me merry Christmas. I was ok with his Christmas cheer until he hollered that he hoped I weren't planning on being buried down here. That was just a little alarming...so I told him I was just visiting and got in the truck and high tailed it out of the area. We then road on to visit a very old cemetery on Highway 253.  The Burleson Cemetery was also identified as Buttahatchee Cemetery.  Nightfall was coming and we needed to cook an aluminum pan of lasagna so we headed off toward Double Springs.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Left my Daddy's house in Double Springs and took Highway 195 north toward Haleyville. Visited Ashridge Methodist Church cemetery.  From there we  drove  northward to Rabbit Town and Winston County Road 26..also called Kinlock Road. 

If memory serves me this Rabbit Town is close to the Byler Road.  There is a National Forest Service sign at this intersection that notes that this is the site of an early tavern. On the Kinlock Road I visited Shiloh Cemetery. This is a hidden cemetery with only two marked graves located several hundred yards beyond Shiloh Church. From Shiloh we continues on Kinlock Road to the intersection with Winston County Road 60. This road is also known as Cranial Road. I wanted to visit a cemetery on this road named Wolfpen Cemetery. What a curious name....wonder the origin?  Wolf pen Cemetery turned out to be filled with many local sandstone markers without carved names. Most makes graves were from the early 1900's. I stayed Cranial Road as it followed a ridgeline into Lawrence County on intersected Highway 33. We turned south and drove to through the Bankhead National Forest to Winston County Road 76.  I looked along this rode for a couple of cemeteries shown on the highway map with no luck. We did happen up on a cemetery located across the road from New Home Baptist Church. This was a productive visit for CSA soldiers. After backtracking to Highway 33 we drove to Winston County 2. This road took me to Antioch Baptist church and a relatively modern cemetery.

At this point, Daddy told me that we needed to go to a cemetery on Black Pond Road. This is a familiar road to me...it is lined from one end to another with Shewbart and McCullough cousins. So we shifted out travels from north of Double Springs to the south along this road where many of our relatives are buried in Pinetucky and Williams cemeteries.

We drove to a rode road identified as J.A.Bennet Cemetery Road by a hand-painted sign out on the main blacktop rode. The road went out over a fresh cut over and through a stand of tall Loblolly pines. The road ended in a muddy turn around at t the cemetery. Sage grass hides many of the rock markers.  

What stands out is a row of plastic flowers. There are nineteen evenly spaces grave along the edge of the cemetery. Each grave is marked by a nondescript small rounded sandstone rock Next to each marker is a small granite mark infant all nineteen granite markers are inscribed : Infant of Clint and Lula McCauley. Nineteen infants. Is this correct?   

Thursday, December 22, 2011

No Yondering to speak of…Daddy had two appointments in Birmingham.

Friday, December 23, 2011

We changed our base of operation to Sulligent, Alabama this morning. I love this time of the year. The missing foliage exposes rock formations, barns, old buildings, chimneys....a multitude of geographical items that spend six of seven months hid behind green leaves.  After visiting with the family I went to see my momma’s Christmas flowers at the Blaylock Cemetery. After leaving momma I circled over across a series of bridges referred to as the John Black Bottom. On the Splunge Road I visited with some Irvins and secured permission to photograph an old frame house sitting on their land. This house has belonged to the Pickle and Irvin families for generations. I made to cemetery visited on this afternoon ride: Crenshaw Cemetery and Baker Cemetery.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

I was sitting on the gravel road that surrounds the cemetery at Smyrna United Methodist Church when the sun came up. This cemetery is located in Marion County, Alabama on Highway 19.  I worked my way back down in to Lamar County by visiting the Rudicell Cemetery, Kingsville Cemetery north of Detroit, Alabama, the Carter Cemetery in Detroit and finally Wesley’s Chapel on Lamar County Road 8. I was back to my brother-in-laws house and Christmas dinner and present giving by 10:00 AM. In the afternoon everybody left for our house and the arrival of Santa Claus (he is a Yondering  guy). I took the 278 route and visited Daddy one more time. In Double Springs I located the geocahe Dual Destiny #3 (#894). I stopped at the Houston Jail for heading home and found the geocache Old Houston Jail (#895).

Catching Up

It has been a year since I posted anything to this blog. Does that mean that I have not been anywhere? On the contrary, I have spent most of the time between posts in a vehicle traveling between Calhoun, Georgia and Doubles Springs, Alabama and Birmingham, Alabama. Throughout Momma's battle with lung cancer I made the trip to Double Springs one or two times of week. After a while, I started to take detours and alternate routes to find caches and visit cemeteries.  After Momma died in August I continued to make the trip every other week or so to take care of Daddy and his affairs. During this time I have visited a lot of cemeteries and recorded a lot of information. I am posting this information in several blogs and on other websites. Take a minute and read through my travels...you may find something that interests you.  Drop me a comment..or suggestion..or any tidbit of information...

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Old Holly Creek P.O. (105-1B)

Location:
N 34º 39.809   W 084º  49.722
Highway 225
Murray County, Georgia

Old Holly Creek P.O.

May 16, 1864. Brig. Gen. J.D. Cox’s Div., 23d A.C. (USA) having crossed the Conasauga River at Hogan’s Ford, 2 mi. S. of Tilton, camped at or near Holly Creek P.O., in this vicinity.

May 17. Learning that the 20th Corps troops (USA) had usurped the Coosawattee River crossing at McClure’s Ferry (at Pine Chapel), Cox moved his troops (via AUDUBON crossroads) to Field’s Mill – two miles above McClure’s, where they were joined by the other two divisions.

The 23d A.C. was the left flank of Sherman’s army, enroute S. in pursuit of the Confederate army retreating from the battlefield of Resaca after two days of battle.


Date Visited: July 24, 2008

Yondering Into Murray County

September 25, 2010

Left for Murray County and a few late afternoon cemeteries. Visited Mt. Harmon Baptist Church and Cemetery, a Connally Cemetery, and the Ramsey Cemetery in Ramhurst. The Connally Cemtery was a place with an awesome view!

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Snake Creek Gap (064-8)

Location:

N 34º 36.538 W 085º 02.758

Intersection of Ga 136 and Ga 136 Connector

Gordon County, Georgia

Snake Creek Gap

May 8, 1864 McPherson’s 15th & 16th Corps (USA) seize Snake Creek Gap. On the 9th attempting to destroy the R.R. at Resaca, (defendiend by Cantey’s Div. of Polk’s Corps), (CSA) McPherson was forced to withdraw to the mouth of the gap where he entrenched. This is the beginning of Sherman’s (USA) move tom outlfalnk Johnston’s forces (CSA) at Dalton.

May 13-14 Sherman moved the 14th, 20th, & 23rd Corps (USA) through the gap & together with McPherson’s troops, advanced toward Resaca – the 4th Crops (USA) marching diue S. from Dalton. On the 14th begain the two day battle of Resaca.

Date Visited: 11/22/09

Father's Day Yondering Trip

Father’s Day Yondering Trip - June 20, 2010

After a Father’s Day breakfast provided by my loving family via the Resaca Hardees I was given the opportunity to take a little geocaching trip. Unfortunately I could not find my GPS. I fear that it may be a causality of the move. Time will tell. I grabbed my notebooks and a compass and took off toward Sugar Valley, Georgia. In Sugar Valley I crossed Horn Mountain on the Pocket Road and stopped off at Fowler Cemetery. This is a hillside cemetery of some size. I did not find in marked Confederates, but I did find a Dough Boy that died in 1918. I left the cemetery and headed north up through the Chattahoochee National Forest. Just south of Furnace Creek and Furnace Creek Road I spotted a small cemetery in a clearing west of the road. This is an area that appears to be recently cleared off. After visiting three graves I was walking back and noticed a bone jutting up out of the ground. It was appears to be a bleached tibia…much larger and robust than a dog or deer. It truthfully appeared to be human in nature. I left it leaning against a tree and headed north on the Pocket Road.

In Villanow I struck out north along Highway 201. Approximately three miles above Villanow I entered Whitfield County and encountered a historical marker in the parking lot of Salem Church. The sign was titled Geary’s Division to Dug Gap (155-8). Two miles farther north I stopped where Gordon Springs Road intersects 201. At this intersection there are two historical markers: Twentieth Corp in Dogwood Valley (155-7) and Callaway Place (155-29C). A local person told me that the original Callaway home is actually the brick home that

sets behind this marker. I photographed the house and the signs and bought a cold Diet Coke before driving north toward Rocky Face. In Rocky Face 201 intersects with Highway 41 – The Old Dixie Highway.

I turned north on 41 a drove for Tunnel Hill and then on into Catoosa County. I visited the Ebenezer Baptist Church just east of I-75. This church contains the marked graves of several local Confederates. There is also an area of the cemetery were a number unknown Confederate dead are buried. I stayed on 41 and drove on through Ringgold Gap into town.

In Ringgold I made several stops. I started at the Anderson Cemetery over near the interstate. Here is another site in which unknown Confederate dead are interred. These warriors of another time are spending their eternity behind an oversized wooden wall that blocks their view of neon glow of commercialized Ringgold. Historical markers were encountered at several locations

throughout town. In front of the Catoosa County Court House stands Catoosa County (023-1) and Confederate Hospitals (23-14). At the corner of Tennessee Street and High Street stands the impressive two story Whitman House. The historical maker Whitman House (23-10) mentions that the battle at the Ringgold Depot was observed by the residents of the house from the second story windows. The Depot itself is the site of another maker: Western& Atlantic Depot (23-8). Leaving Ringgold heading south on 41, I stopped at the Atlanta Campaign Pavilion. I have also photographed the pavilions at Cassville, Resaca, and Dalton. The historical marker Ringgold Gap (23-16) tells the story of the stubborn defense of the Confederate rear given by GeneralPatrick Cleburne’s troops in the Gap. There is also a statue of this fiery Confederate at the pavilion. His bronze eyes seem to shoot bolts of fire….

A few miles south of Ringgold Highway 2 splits off and 201 goes toward Varnell. In the forks of the road stands the Old Stone Presbyt

erian Church. It is a local history museum that appeared to have just closed. In its yard is a historical marker – Old Stone Presbyterian Church (023-9). There is also a large plaque commemorating the Trail of Tears in the parking lot. Opposite the church along the side of Highway 2 is another historical marker: Old Federal Road (023-7). Up behind the church was a very old cemetery. This cemetery contained quite a few individuals that were born in the seventeen hundreds. I would suppose these were the first settlers venturing down the Federal Road and finding their way into the new interior. It is interesting the overall size of the cleared area. Below the active part of the cemetery is a grass slope that contains as much space as the cemetery proper. I wonder if there are unmarked graves on that slope. The Stone Church was used as a hospital…could there be unmarked Confederates or Union soldiers resting on that grassy slope? That is question that begs more research!

Heading east toward Varnell on the Highway 2…the Catoosa Parkway… I visited Lee Chapel. About three miles below the Rock Church I documented a sign located in the intersection of Highway 2 and Tunnel Hill Road. The sign is titled Campaign for Atlanta Began Here (23-4). In understand Sherman observed his troops moving east from Ringgold from the Lee Home to the north. From this point I continued eastward in Whitfield County for two miles to Varnell. Coming into this town one passes over an elevation known at the Cohutta Ridge. This ridge appears to be a northern extension of Rocky Face and it gives one a view of the mountains east of Dalton. In Varnell I visited a house known as the Varnell Home. In the yard there is a historical marker: Varnell Home ( 155-32). Directly opposite this house is a place called Varnell Spring Branch. I watched a family fill many jugs of the water from this spring…for home use I supposed. Leaving Varnell 201 tracks to the south and west toward Tunnel Hill. Here I visited the Foster Cemetery and noted several Confederate soldiers.

It was getting late so I turned south out of Tunnel Hill. Stopped and got my last Diet Coke of the day and headed home! Thus ended a great Father Day’s gift of a yondering afternoon.

Appendage Burial

During our spring break we were fortunate enough to visit the folks in Alabama. On an early morning yondering trip I got the chance to stop at Henson Spring Cemetery in Lamar County, Alabama. This is an old cemetery located off of Lamar County 35 (River Road). There were several interesting graves in this cemetery, but one really caught my eye.

I do not know much about Mr. Duncan, but it does appear that jumping a train could be an occupational hazard for the hobo in training.

Henson Springs Cemetery
Lamar County, Alabama
N 34° 00.781 W088° 03.892
Date Visited: April 6, 2010

World War I Solider: 2nd Lieutenant William L. LeConte

Tombstone Location:

Eastview Cemetery
Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 22.021 W084° 55.484

Date of Visit: February 27, 2010

Tombstone Inscription:
In Memoriam
Wm. Lewis LeConte
Killed in Action
Chateau Thierry France
Son of J.A. & Emma K Leconte
Sept 27, 1895
July 19, 1918

Discussion:

William Lewis LeConte was the son of James A. LeConte and Emma Kinman of Adairsville, Georgia. The descendent of the famous LeConte family of naturalist and scientist, LeConte was born in 1895. He was a graduate of the Boy’s High School (later to become Grady High School) and Emory University. At time of enlistment into the AEF he was employed in Atlanta with General Electric. After training at Camp Greene, North Carolina, LeConte was posted with the 59th Regiment of the 4th Division. On July 19, 1918 the 4th Division was sin the line of battle during the Aisne-Marne Operations. It is recorded that he died of his wounds on the 19th and was buried in Plat A, Row 7, Grave 29 in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, France.

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Sources:
Aisne-Marne American cemetery, American Battle Monumnbets Commission, www. abmc.gov, accessed March 15, 2010
125 Casualties Among Our Forces in France 21 Army Officers Dead and 8 Wounded, Special to The New York Times, August 1, 1918. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CEEDE1739E13ABC4A53DFBE668383609EDE, accessed March 20, 2010
William L. LeConte, Find A Grave Memorial #9210377, July 31, 2004

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Harlan’s Cross Roads (064-21)

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Harlan’s Cross Roads (064-21)
Location:
N 34º 34.851 W 084º 52.772
Intersection of Ga 225 and Pine Chapel Road.
Gordon County, Georgia

Harlin’s Cross Roads

Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield’s Headquarters May 16, 1864.

Hovey’s 1st & Judah’s 2d divs. of Schofield’s 23d A.C. (USA) enroute from Resaca battlefield crossed the Conasauga River at Fite’s Fy. intending to pass the Coosawattee at McClure’s Ferry, 1.25 mi. east of here. But the 20th A.C. (USA) diverted from Newtown Ferry by Gen. Hooker got ahead of Schofield & crossed at McClure’s . This forced Schofield's 2 div. 2 mi. S.E. to Field’s Fy.
Cox’s (3d) div. (USA) crossed the Conasauga near Tilton, & via Holley, marched to Field’s Fy.



Date Visited: 11/8/09

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Lay’s Ferry (64-12)

Location:
N 34º 32.458 W 084º 58.265
Intersection of Highway 136 Connector and Hall Memorial Road
Gordon County, Georgia

Lay’s Ferry

Lay’s or Tanner’s Ferry, Oostanaula River, was 1.5 mi. S.W. of this point – access road no longer existing.

May 14, 1864. Sweeny’s (2d) div. 16th A.C. (USA) moved to Lay’s Ferry & effected crossing by one brigade but a false rumor of Confederate crossing above caused the Federals to withdraw to this side.

May 15. Sweeny’s div. made the crossing. He was at once assailed by Walker’s div. of Hardee’s Corps (CSA) – an affair known as the battle of Lay’ Ferry. This move on Johnston’s left rear caused him to abandon position at Resaca and retreat south.

Date Visited: 11/22/09

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Field’s Mill & Ferry (64-23)

Location:
N 34º 33.871 W 084º 49.972
Owens Gin Road at Coosawattee River Bridge
Gordon County, Georgia

Field’s Mill & Ferry

May 16, 1864. Butterfield’s (3d) division., 20 A.C. (USA) instead of crossing at McClure’s Ferry 2 mi. downstream, sought to gain time by moving to Field’s - - reaching here 11 P.M. Not until noon of the 17th was it across.

Schofield, prevented from crossing his corps (23d) (USA) at McClure’s moved the 1st and 2d divs. to Field’s, arriving here early the 17th - - as did Cox’s (3d) div., which marched via Tilton & Holley.

With Butterfield at Field’s, Schofield’s A.C. (the left wing of Sherman’s advance from Resaca), was held up 24 hrs. because of the erratic moves of the 20th Corps.





Date Visited: 11/8/09

The Move to Adairsville

On the first day of the year we had a little fire at our house. Well actually it was a pretty big fire and were basically without a place to live. We have moved down the road to Adairsville until we rebuild. I am going to start doing a few posts here. Sorry for the delay

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Babb’s Settlement and Battle of Dug Gap

Location:
N 34º 44.196 W 085º 02.482
Intersection of Babb Road and Mill Creek Road
Whitfield County, Georgia

Babb’s Settlement

Ante-bellum domain of Joel Babb (1809-1882) on Mill Cr., foot of Rocky Face at Dug Gap.

May 8, 1864, 1 A.M., Col. W.C.P. Breckinridge’s 9th Ky., Grigsby’s Brigade, Wheeler’s Cav., descended from Dug Gap & patrolled the roads N. & W. to ascertain if Federals were there. By 1:30 P.M. Breckinridge found Dogwood Valley swarming with Federals, a brigade of which, in support of Kilpatrick’s cav., was enroute S. to Villanow. Later, the 9th Ky., confronted by 2 brigades, Geary’s div., 20th A.C. moving east forced to retreat to Dug Gap. Geary reaching this vicinity at 3 P.M. deployed his two brigades for the storming of Dug Gap.


Battle of Dug Gap

May 8, 1864. Maj. Gen J.W. Geary, with Buschbeck’s & Candy’s brigades of the 2nd div., 20 A.C., moving from near Gordon’s Springs, reached this, Babb’s Settlement, at 3 P.M. Planting McGill’s Penn. Battery(3 inch Rodman guns) bear Joel Babb’s house the Confederate positions at Dug Gap in Rocky Face Ridge was shelled. This was followed by a concerted assault up the steep scarp by Buschbeck’s brigade on the right, Candy’s on the left. Repeated attempts by the Federals to seize the gap ended in failure, but under cover of this engagement, McPherson’s troops occupied Snake Creek Gap.

Date Visited: 11/26/09

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Battle of Lay’s Ferry

Location:
N 34º 31.006 W 084 º 59.422
Intersection of Herrington Bend Road and Hunts Road
Gordon County, Georgia

Battle of Lay’s Ferry (064-19)

May 14, 1864. A contingent from Sweeny’s (2d) div., 16th A.C. (USA) made a crossing here in pontoon boats, but on a rumor of Confederate crossing upstream it withdrew.

May 15. The division, supported by Welker’s Artillery (USA) crossed in force & deployed to meet the immediate attack by Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker’s div., Hardee’s A.C. (CSA), in the area between George W. Frix house and the Oostanaula River. This Federal move on the Confederate left & rear forced Johnson (CSA) to evacuate his line at Resaca.

Date Visited: 11/25/09

Historic Home: Ogden House

On December 19, 2009 we left Calhoun for Sulligent, Alabama. This is my lovely wife’s hometown. Sulligent is a small town in the west Alabama county of Lamar. This is also the historic region in which my mother’s family anchored their roots. The Odgen House cannot help but be noticed as one drives through Sulligent on US Highway 17. It once served as the town library, but today it appears to be headed down that path that has claimed so many of the old structures that make up our historic landscape.

Location:

N 33º 54.000 W 088 º 07.987
Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama

The Ogden House
Built in 1888, this was the first house constructed within the original city limits of Sulligent after incorporation. It was the family home of William W. and Tallulah Henson Ogden. One of the founders and chief promoters of Sulligent, Mr. Ogden was a merchant, banker, planter, Mayor of Sulligent 1919-1921 and a member of the Alabama House of Representatives 1931-1934. Leila Ogden, daughter of the builder, presented this house to the town of Sulligent in 1975.



Date Visited and/or Photographed: 12/20/09

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: McClure’s Ferry

Location:

N 34º 34.773 W 084 º 51.769
Pine Chapel Road
Gordon County, Georgia

McClure’s Ferry

May 16, 1864 Major Gen. Jospeh Hooker (20th A.C.), moving E. from Resaca, with orders to cross at Newtown Fy., elected to usurp the crossing at McClure’s thereby forcing Schofield’s 23rd A.C. to proceed E. to Field’s Mill & Ferry. Williams (1st) & Geary’s (2nd) divs. crossed at night on a temporary bridge. To hasten progress Butterfield’s (3rd) div. moved on to Field’s complicating affairs by getting there ahead of Schofield. The 23d QA.C with Stoneman’s and McCooks’s Cavalry constituted the left wing of Sherman’s advance S. from Resaca.


Date Visited and/or Photographed: 4/11/08

Christmas Yondering

Christmas Eve, 2009

Hannah and Luke are just too old and cool. Isaac is four and he is wired tight tonight.

With the activities of our children it has been the hardest year to get home that Alice and I can remember. We left last Saturday night for Sulligent, Alabama and Christmas with the Weeks family. Part of us drove home Sunday night so that Hannah and Luke could both attend Monday morning practices. Alice and Isaac came home Monday evening. After attending a wrestling tournament in Ringgold, Georgia we were back on the road Tuesday evening. We went to Double Springs for my family Christmas. Because of the need to attend a funeral this morning we left my parents house and drove back here last night.

Our Florida relelatives here tonight. We are waiting on Santa Claus!!! Our other loved ones are in different places tonight. We miss them, but they will be in our hearts.

Merry Christmas!!!

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Villanow

Civil War Historical Roadside Marker: Villanow

Location:

N 34º 40.422 W 085 º 06.898
Intersection of US 136 and GA 201
Villanow, Walker County, Georgia

Inscription:

Villanow

Ante-bellum cross-settlements: name taken from Jane Porters novel: “Thaddeus of Warsaw.” May 7, 1864, Kilpatrick’s Cav., having crossed Taylor’s Ridge at Nickajack Gap, moved to Gordon’s Springs where it was joined by Ireland’s Brigade (Geary’s Div., 20th AC). May 8, these troops moved to Villanow to meet and support McPherson’s forces (USA Flag) moving east from Ship’s and Gordon’s Spring Gaps in Taylor’s Ridge. McPherson’s troops reached Villanow at noon & continued east to Snake Creek Gap – a surprise move to outflank Johnston’s forces (CSA Flag) at Dalton. The seizure of Snake Creek Gap was effected while Geary’s Div. (20th AC USA Flag) attacked Dug Gap.

Date Visited and/or Photographed: November 22, 2009.

The accompanying photograph is the Villanow General Store. The store fronts the road to Subligna and stands directly across US 136 from the Historical Marker. According to locals the store was established in 1840, so it was standing when the troops passed this way. Sadly, the store has recently ceased operations. I have been in the store several times over the years. The store housed an impressive array of Civil War relics dug from the ground surrounding the store.

This place represents a strategically and logistically important location in the early stages of the Atlanta Campaign.